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Università della Svizzera italiana

From threat to risk : ghanging rationales and practices of secrecy

Heide, Marlen

In: Public integrity, 2021, p. 13

This article explores how risk rationales affect and alter national security secrecy. While the transformation of defense and security policy has been widely discussed by security theorists, transparency scholars have not yet considered the notion of risk in their conceptualizations of national security secrecy. This article draws on security studies literature to outline the divergences...

Università della Svizzera italiana

Promoting newsafety from the exile : the emergence of new journalistic roles in diaspora journalists’ networks

Porlezza, Colin ; Arafat, Rana

In: Journalism practice, 2021, p. 23

Diaspora journalists and digital media play an important role as stakeholders for war-ridden homeland media landscapes such as Syria. This study analyzes, from a safety in practice perspective, the physical and digital threats that challenge the work of Syrian citizen journalists examining the role of three online advocacy networks created by Syrian diaspora journalists to promote newsafety....

Università della Svizzera italiana

Securing whistleblowing in the digital age : SecureDrop and the changing journalistic practices for source protection

Di Salvo, Philip

In: Digital Journalism, 2021, vol. 9, no. 4, p. 443-460

Information security tools have gained prominence and importance in the journalism field and are now being adopted more frequently by newsrooms and investigative journalists. SecureDrop, an opensource software for operating whistleblowing platforms, is now a common component of the toolboxes of journalists willing to work with stronger levels of security, especially in regard to source...

Università della Svizzera italiana

Analyzing cultural tourism promotion on Instagram : a cross-cultural perspective

Mele, Emanuele ; Kerkhof, Peter ; Cantoni, Lorenzo

In: Journal of travel & tourism marketing, 2021, vol. 38, no. 3, p. 326-340

A lack of cross-cultural research has been identified regarding cultural tourism promotion on social media. Using the dimensions of Collectivism-Individualism, Power Distance, and High-Context vs. Low-Context communication, we content analyze cultural value differences in Instagram posts promoting cultural tourism – published by the national tourism organizations of Chile, Portugal, USA, and...

Università della Svizzera italiana

How smartphone use becomes problematic : application of the ALT-SR model to study the predicting role of personality traits

Marciano, Laura ; Schulz, Peter Johannes ; Camerini, Anne-Linda

In: Computers in human behavior, 2021, vol. 119, no. June, p. 14 p

Smartphones have become a ubiquitous part of adolescents' life, and studies have repeatedly revealed a positive association between smartphone use (SU) and problematic smartphone use (PSU). However, longitudinal research investigating the reciprocal relationship among SU and PSU during adolescence are scarce, and studies that take into consideration personality traits as predisposing factors...

Università della Svizzera italiana

The construction of norms : examinations of norms for visual data practices in mediated public discourses

Venema, Rebecca ; Lobinger, Katharina (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2021 ; 2021COM010.

Social norms as concepts of legitimate and appropriate action are basic elements of social coordination and essentially “communication phenomena” (Rimal & Lapinski, 2015, Lapinski & Rimal, 2005). They are negotiated, shaped, understood, learned, and maintained through communication, with mediated public discourses as central forums for the communication and negotiation of norms. Despite...

Haute école de gestion de Genève

OAIS compliant digital archiving in DNA

Andriamahady, Dina ; Makhlouf Shabou, Basma (Dir.)

Mémoire de bachelor : Haute école de gestion de Genève, 2021 ; TDB 2462.

Time and space have been among the main concerns for archivists for a very long time. In other words, how to keep information accessible and understandable for the longest time and how to organize the ever-growing amount of data. Average storage media longevity is short from an archival point of view and similarly, technological progress leads to media obsolescence. Furthermore, media decay over...

Université de Fribourg

How important is civic engagement for public transportation communication?

Asdourian, Bruno ; Zimmerli, Virginie

In: Strategic communication for non-profit organisations, 2016, p. 239-266

The communication between users of digital media and public or non-profit organization involved into an open data policy are represented through a democratic way with upwards and downward flows; implying an evolving participation of citizens and a progressive openness of a company’s database. Under this perspective, various tasks have been employed. The mission of this paper is to define and...

Université de Fribourg

Cultural Mediation in International Exchange Programs : Personalization, Translation, and Coproduction in Exchange Participant Blogs

Lee, Kyung Sun ; Ingenhoff, Diana

In: International Journal of Communication, 2020, vol. 14, p. 4343-4363

This study analyzes cultural mediation in international exchange participant blogs, exploring their significance for relational public diplomacy. We recognize exchange participant blogs as a site of public diplomacy at work. Moving beyond the dominant assumption guiding exchange programs as exporting values and ideas to foreign publics, we consider the extent to which the public engages in...

Université de Fribourg

Public Diplomacy on Social Media : Analyzing Networks and Content

Sevin, Efe ; Ingenhoff, Diana

In: International Journal of Communication, 2018, vol. 12, p. 3663-3685

Measurement has been and still is a challenging issue in the practice and study of public diplomacy. In this article, we propose a model to assess the impacts of public diplomacy projects by creating a link between social media communication campaigns and the perception of nations by audiences—or nation brands. We demonstrate how the model can be used to analyze the digital communication...